Everybody Asks (aka FAQs)
FEES
Fees for a 50-minute hour
Psychotherapy / Counseling / Coaching —$120
Hypnotherapy — $150
Why don’t you take insurance?
The short answer, is the insurance system invades your privacy and nickels and dimes your therapist - some actually COUNT the MINUTES I’m with you. More later but more and more therapists are going to self-pay.
Specialty Trainings and Certifications
Brain Spotting Brain Spotting: 2-Day Workshop with David Grand, 2025
Dialectical Behavioral Therapy Certified Dialectical Behavior Therapy Professional (C-DBT) Training 2023
Advanced Grief Counseling Specialist Training 2024
Eating Disorders: Utilizing Existing Clinical Resources for Eating Disorder care, 2025
Suicidality: Collaborative Assessment and Management of Suicidaltiy (CAMS) training at HCRS, 2020
Trauma
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind and Body in the Healing of Trauma, Bessel van der Kolk, Trauma Center at Justice Resource Center, June 5, 2015
Understanding and Responding to Trauma using the ARC Framework (Attachment, Self-Regulation and Competency), CSAC, January 28, 2014
Trauma Releasing Exercises (TRE), Kripalu Center, David Berceli, developer of TRE, 2013
Hearing Voices
Maastrict Interview, Unusual Beliefs, Hearing Voices, Peter Bullimore, Hearing Voices Network UK, 2015
Making Sense of Problematic Thoughts, Beliefs & Paranoia, Peter Bullimore, Hearing Voices Network UK, 2014
Hearing Voices, Ron Coleman, Working to Recovery, UK, 2014
Open Dialogue
Collaborate Network Approach, June 2018, June 2020
Monthly Open Dialogue Consulting Practice, CSAC, 2016
Open Dialogue and Dialogic Practice, CSAC, 2014-2015
Open Dialogue: Dialogic Practice, Jakko Seikkula and Mary Olson, Institute for Dialogic Practice, Northampton, MA, 2015
Group Work
Group Facilitation, VT Association for Mental Health & Addictions Recovery, Feb. 6, 2015
Substance Abuse and Addictions
Using Mindfulness Techniques to Prevent Relapse in Addicted Clients, Mark Schwarze, American Counseling Association Conference, Orlando, FL, 2-15
SBIRT for Elder Care Professionals, VT Dept of Disabilities, Aging and Independent Living, 2015
